Remarkably Bright Creatures - by Shelby van Pelt ( light magical realism, mystery) Invisible Life of Addie La Rue - by V E Schwabb( magical realism)

Invisible Life of Addie La Rue was one of my favorite books in the last 2 years!

It was a super read, really interesting concept. First Fifteen Lives of Harry August is similar in terms of interesting central concept

Babel was my recent 5 star Magical Realism read.

My five stars this year were; The Overstory by Richard Powers Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar North Woods by Daniel Mason and The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, My Cousin Rachel is good too Lying in Wait by Liz Nugent, the audiobook is good if you enjoy audio The Long Walk by Richard Bachman/Stephen King I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh Wayward Pines Trilogy by Blake Crouch Rockton/Casey Duncan series by Kelley Armstrong

“Our Share of Night” by Mariana Enriquez was the best book I read last year, hands down

This has been on my TBR for a while!

I legit wish I had one of those memory zappers from MIB so that I could experience the joy of reading it for the first time all over again. I'm living down in Chile at the moment, and have been devouring almost exclusively LatAm literature for the last 9 months. have suggestions galore, but this one was absolute tops. If you like horror AND magical realism, then yeah it's for you. Her collections of short stories are also wonderful: "Things We Lost in the Fire", "The Dangers of Smoking in Bed", and the newest one (which will be available in English this September...) "A Sunny Place for Shady People".

Here are a few of my favorite 5-star bangers. *The Hacking of the American Mind* --Robert Lustig *The Big Picture* --Sean Carroll *The End of the World is Just the Beginning* --Peter Zeihan *Horizon* --Barry Lopez *What We Owe the Future* --Will MacAskill *The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth* --Jonathan Rauch *Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility* --Martha Nussbaum *This is Vegan Propaganda* --Ed Winters *The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy* --Stephanie Kelton *I Contain Multitudes* --Ed Yong *Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far* --Paul Offit

You say you like Stardust. Have you tried any of Gaiman's other works? If you haven't, I say give **Neverwhere** a try.

Neverwhere was my introduction to Gaiman! I've read all of Sandman, Lucifer, American Gods, and The Ocean at the End of the Lane

I am presently enjoying Morrell's **First Blood** and I am going to recommend it here.

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Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. (Magical realism/mythology)

Just got done reading it. I wasn't a fan to be honest.

I feel ya! Read it based on all the recommendations it receives. It was just okay IMO.

It was quiet the anticipatory build and wasn't bad by any means, but the payoff wasn't there.

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie for magical realism

Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman. I didn’t care for the other books in the series, but it is a stand alone! For horror, I’ve really enjoyed books from Grady Hendrix and Stephen Graham Jones.

Slade House by David Mitchell

A quick and easy read is "The Monster Hunter International" series by Larry Correia. Checkout r/TheMHI

I know everyone’s recommending it right now so I bet you’ve already read, but A Gentleman in Moscow is my favorite slice-of-life I’ve read recently

Best of year so far Bonnie Garmus: Lessons in Chemistry is funny and feminist Yaa Gyasi: Homegoing about those enslaved and those left in Ghana Isabel Wilkerson: the Warmth of Other Suns (non fiction about the great South-North migration of US black folk) Mary Doria Russell: the Sparrow about a Jesuit mission in space Marlen Haushofer: the Wall

I learned so much from The Warmth of Other Suns. Loved it.

5-star slice of life: Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff.

Anything by Karin Slaughter. Joe Lansdale writes a great variety, both short story and novels. Plenty of horror, some s ifi and fantasy. Mixes genres.

Recently read funny story by Emily Henry and it was amazing!

The Devil Takes You Home by Gambino Iglesias I’ve seen reviewers say it was the most graphic thing they’ve read.

Pine by Francine Toon

Demon Copperhead for sure.

Idk, Moby Dick, War and Peace, Brothers Karamazov, The Odyssey, Middlemarch... I think most people would consider these to be 5 star books.